Strangers hovis Bottom left

Bottom left

c1879-1919

a porter carrying luggage

A faithful copy of a Beatles and Roy Orbison concert poster from 1963

The Duke of Wellington on a donkey with a saddle resembling a mayoral gown approaching a gallows

Strangers hovis Bottom left'Strangers', 1883. Father Christmas visits the slums of London to find the little girl does not know him. The continuing concern over the plight of the capital's poorest citizens had been brought to the fore once again by the publication of Andrew Mearns' The Bitter Cry of Outcast London earlier in the year. Published by the London City Mission, this had graphically described the terrible conditions in which many of the urban poor lived. From Punch,